Christmas craziness

This may be about the longest I've not written on here, but life has been awfully busy lately. With Christmas decorating, shopping, getting ready to leave for Seattle for a week, and then also being ready for Matt's fam to come stay right after we get back! Phew! I am glad for a break. Matt was also busy with making and grading final exams, getting grades in, and all that. He also surprised me by putting lights up on the house while I was gone one day :).

We had something up almost every night this past week. We had a great time at my school's staff Christmas party on Thursday night. We had a video lecture to go to on Tuesday, and a dinner on Monday night. That video thing is called "The Truth Project," and is a series of 14 video lectures put out by Focus On The Family. My school is showing them because we can get Bible credits that we need for ACSI certification by doing it. I guess it's pretty popular out here though, because several area churches have advertised it also. So we go to this once a week until we see them all, it kinda talks about forming a Biblical worldview and how we can't accept the assumptions and statements the world says when they have meanings that aren't Biblical.

The dinner we went to Monday night was at my principal's house (his wife is a jr high teacher also) with a few other couples who get together for dinner every week. We were the youngest by far, the couple who had been the youngest (it is actually the jr high teacher whom I subbed for) are in their 30s, but everyone else are more like a few years younger than my parents. It was a lot of fun though, and good for Matt to have some guys to hangout with.

We left Friday afternoon to drive to Redding, CA for the night. We ended up stopping in Sacramento to have dinner with our friend Melinda and her boyfriend on the way! We left early Saturday morning and got into rainy Seattle around 5:30, and are we ever glad to be here and relax! The drive wasn't bad though... we had good weather (aside from a bit of fog and rain) and road conditions, and Samson was an angel in the car. I learned how to crochet a flower to add to the baby hats that I make, that was exciting for me :). Samson has been very hyper since we've arrived, so we are hoping that he will get used to it here and calm down a bit!

Well, I had better take advantage of this afternoon, which is free of plans, to relax, because our next week is filing up fast!